The Minister of Science and Higher Education assessed the successes and prospects of the Advanced Engineering School of Novgorod State University

The Advanced Engineering School of Novgorod State University analyzed the results of its work for the past year and promising development plans for the near future. This was done at the Council for Coordination of the Activities of the Advanced Engineering School chaired by the head of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia Valery Falkov.

It should be noted that Advanced Engineering Schools have been built in Russia since 2022. Currently, 50 such schools have been created within the framework of this federal project, and by 2030 there should be at least 100 of them.

From 2025, the first 30 schools from 15 regions, including the Novgorod State University PIS, will move to a new stage of financing under the terms of the project: after 3 years of budget financing, they will move to off-budget financing and will operate using funds attracted from industrial partners.

"The first 30 advanced engineering schools are moving to a new qualitative level of development, " emphasized the head of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Valery Falkov. "It is important that regional authorities pay great attention to the development of advanced engineering schools in their cities, understanding their value for strengthening relations between higher education and the real sector of the economy."

The industrial partner of the Novgorod PISh was PJSC Acron. Cooperation with Acron is conducted in 6 areas. This is the development of sensors and detectors of physical quantities, programmable logic controllers, software for configuring such controllers, the development of production management systems and software for managing laboratory data flows, as well as the development of virtual simulators for employees.

Over the 3 years of joint work, PISH and Akron have managed to achieve good results in the field of production automation. The advanced engineering school of Novgorod State University is focused on training new generation engineers in the fields of electronics, radio engineering, communication systems, automation of control systems, artificial intelligence and digital technologies. PISH specialists carry out large-scale career guidance work: in 2024, 2,368 schoolchildren were involved in projects. This is more than the total number of 11th grade graduates in the Novgorod region (according to the website statprivat.ru)

"PISh laboratories help to turn ideas into reality thanks to technical capabilities," explained the school's director, Sergey Chebotarev. " If a student has an idea, we become a tool for support, development, and commercialization. For these purposes, 10 special educational spaces have been opened at the PISh site - 1 virtual and 9 physical. Sometimes students offer a better solution than experienced developers."

Currently, 342 people are studying in the PISh programs “Chemical Technology”, “Fundamental and Applied Chemistry”, “Technosphere Safety”, “Radio Engineering”, “Electronics and Nanoelectronics”, “Design and Technology of Electronic Means” and “Informatics and Computer Engineering”, another 46 have completed training in a network format.

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